favorite quotations and sayings


God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them. ~Author Unknown

Happiness is not getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got. ~Author Unknown

Good friends are like stars ... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there. ~Author Unknown

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. ~James Allen

I asked God to give me happiness. God said, "No. I give you blessings. Happiness is up to you." ~Author Unknown

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! ~Constanze

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. ~Author Unknown

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. ~Charles Baudelaire

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. ~George Balanchine

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words. ~Ruth St. Denis

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~Lillian Smith

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ~Emmanuel

Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. ~Carter Lindberg

Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. ~Author Unknown

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~George Iles

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ~C.S. Lewis

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. ~Lois Wyse

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. ~Author Unknown

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~Eleanor Powell

All God's angels come to us disguised. ~James Russell Lowell

I just hope God does not get bored of dreaming me. ~Author Unknown

Life is God's novel. Let him write it. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ~Ingrid Bergman

A kiss, when all is said, what is it?
A rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving;
'Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
~Edmond Rostand

kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings

A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ~Proverb

The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze. ~Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

I ran up the door, opened the stairs, said my pajamas and put on my prayers - turned off my bed, tumbled into my light, and all because he kissed me good-night! ~Author Unknown

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. ~Mistinguett

Hugs are the universal medicine. ~Author Unknown

Hugging has no unpleasant side effects and is all natural. There are no batteries to replace, it's inflation-proof and non-fattening with no monthly payments. It's non-taxable, non-polluting, and is, of course, fully refundable. ~Author Unknown

Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. ~Author Unknown

When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. ~Author Unknown

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud. ~Anonymous

Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile. ~Author Unknown

I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. ~Author Unknown

A laugh is a smile that bursts. ~Mary H. Waldrip

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. ~James Dean

Forgiveness frees us from the burden of resentment. ~Unknown

What are the odds? ~Tucker, Flash Forward

Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy! ~Ms. Frizzle, The Magic School Bus

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 1937

What is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. ~Helen Hayes

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. ~Samuel Johnson

Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach your destiny. ~Carl Schurz

A kiss isn't the truth, but it is what we wish were true. ~Steve Martin

Don�t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won�t let you see the stars. ~Violeta Parra

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. ~Langston Hughes

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~Elbert Hubbard

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ~James Baldwin

More than kisses, letters mingle souls. ~John Donne

A single rose can contain all the suns and worlds of the universe... ~Anon

Comparisons are odious. ~Sir John Fortescue

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never. ~Charles Colton

A dreamer lives for eternity. ~Anonymous

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery

Every person's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. ~Hans Christian Anderson

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. ~Edith Hamilton

Dreams are necessary to life. ~Anais Nin

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. ~Marcel Proust

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~Albert Einstein

The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze. ~Author Unknown

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament.
Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God! ~John Muir

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little. ~John Zabat-Zinn

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ~Henry David Thoreau, 1856

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun.
And when you have fun, you can do amazing things. ~Joe Namath

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. ~George Washington

Faith is the refusal to panic. ~David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. ~Walt Disney

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those. ~Author Unknown

Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become. ~Author Unknown

Humor comes from self-confidence. ~Rita Mae Brown

The secret to humor is surprise. ~Aristotle

There is the kiss of welcome and of parting,
the long, lingering, loving, present one;
the stolen, or the mutual one;
the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow;
the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.
~Thomas C. Haliburton

It is the passion that is in a kiss
that gives to it its sweetness;
it is the affection in a kiss
that sanctifies it."
~Christian Nevell Bovee

Never a lip is curved with pain
That can't be kissed into smile again."
~Brete Harte

Is not a kiss the very autograph of love? ~Henry Finck

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh -- at yourself. ~Ethel Barrymore

Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye

Nothing is worth more than this day. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ~Thomas Szasz

Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown. ~Author Unknown

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never explain--your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ~H. L. Mencken

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